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".. the art of speaking and writing well ..." CU ÐßÐßÊÓƵ PhD Candidate Allison Rowland has given some thought to teaching effective rhetoric. Students nominated Rowland for an ASSETT Teaching with Technology Award last year for her teaching of an upper division writing class with the topic of the War...

Josh LePree has a vision for teaching that transcends the classroom: "[I want] to create a seamless environment for class [so that] ... it seems like there's no break between [class and homework]," says LePree. He is a Sociology PhD student at CU ÐßÐßÊÓƵ and has been teaching at the...

Imagine that you could just reach over and open a 'how to' reference guide for making the world a better place. That's what Dr.s Guy and Heidi Burgess had in mind when they requested ASSETT Development Award funding for their Make a Difference Guide for their Peace and Conflict Studies...

Dr. Michela Ardizzoni of the Department of French and Italian encouraged her students to create websites to share information with local schools. See her padlet of her students' work here . Teaching and Learning Challenge In the Spring of 2014, I taught a new course on documentary and social change...

Watch Dr. Miriam Kingsberg's video podcast about how she incorporated shared notes into her lecture course, as inspired through her experience in the 2014 ASSETT Teaching with Technology Seminar. Teaching and Learning Challenge This semester (Spring 2014), I taught a large (approximately 90 students) introductory survey of Japanese history (HIST...

Watch this video of Dr. Deserai Crow reflecting on pedagogy and her use of Google Drive for in-class group work in large Environmental Studies lectures. Teaching and Learning Challenge Beginning in fall semester 2013, I began to teach much larger lectures than I had previously taught. This was in part...

Dr. Beth Osnes trained her students in solar powered puppet theatre to create a performance about clean energy. She also took her students all the way to the Navajo Nation, where students hosted a photo booth for traditionally underrepresented groups to make their voices heard. Teaching and Learning Challenge Multi-modal...

Bret Fund used Gogy online slides to invite his students to participate more in an entrepreneurial business course. Teaching and Learning Challenge Educators often struggle with two problems in classes that require some type of lecture component. First, educators often underutilize the collective knowledge and experience of the audience due...

Want to model the progress of a disease over a month's time? Sure, just write a calculus equation that would model the statistics of the disease's progression for one hour at a time. Got that done? Now, just solve the problem over and over again until...Did you fall asleep yet?...

When it comes to incorporating technology into teaching, Holly Gayley has run the gamut. Gayley, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at CU ÐßÐßÊÓƵ, has harnessed several of ASSETT's resources over the past few years to help make her teaching more effective. She first participated in ASSETT's 2012 Teaching with Technology...